Once I was reasonably confident that I had the first 2000 best nodes of all times, I started playing with the resulting database, and eventually I made a simple search engine, from where I can get some statistics by section or author, and lists of nodes, customized by section and rep.

A few examples:

Stats by section, sorted by number of nodes: (but you can get stats by author, or sorted in different ways)

Statistical Analysis seems to be a common sport among Perl Monks -- suits me, as the son and grandson of an actuary.

One minor detracting point -- can you change the links to the articles from absolute links to the [id://123456] format? As soon as I checked out one of the links, the formatting went wonky -- I was logged out. Thanks!